CIO Research Library

Jon Kern
Software Architect, Immuexa
Jon worked with Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Alistair Cockburn, Ron Jeffries, Ken Schwaber, Ward Cunningham, and others to co-author The Agile Manifesto For Software Development. He also co-authored Java Design with his long-time mentor, Peter Coad, and worked on a few other books where he published his lightweight development processes.

Mike Dwyer
Agile Coach, BigVisible Solutions
Mike Dwyer is a Principal Agile Coach at BigVisible Solutions. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and coaches teams and organizations as they continuously improve their Agility. Mike's practice goes beyond development to include M&A, support, help desks, product visioning, maintenance, operations, architecture, and infrastructure in the healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, public sector, and professional services industries. He is a well known and respected contributor to the Scrum, Agile, and Lean software community as well as a Certified Scrum Practitioner. Mike has an MBA from Boston College and a BA from Clark University.

John Overbaugh
Dir. of Quality Assurance, Medicity, Inc.
John Overbaugh, Director of Quality Assurance for Medicity, Inc., is a test leader with 13 years of experience in product and project IT, focusing on quality and defect prevention. John's background covers pretty much everything from consumer applications to high-availability enterprise server applications and highly scalable Web services. John's strengths and key experiences include test strategy, outsourcing/offshoring and the test process. His emphasis is effective and efficient software engineering.